Mr Ed – Britain has not had a limited constitutional monarchy since such books as Walter Bagehot’s (the vile third editor of the Economist magazine) the “English Constitution” started to be taken as gospel and built upon (each step of the way building on Bagehot’s position – and making it worse and worse….). At the time Queen Victoria would have told Bagehot to go jump in the nearest lake – the monarch just a “dignified” (i.e. POWERLWESS) position my foot…. (not at the time).

But by the time Elizabeth W. was educated (by private tutors I believe) the idea that the monarch should have their own political opinions and ACT ON THEM was considered outrageous. The Queen (sincerely and honestly) believes it is her duty to reflect enlightened liberal opinion (regardless of whether she personally believes in it or not).

And what is “enlightened liberal opinion”? The Guardian of course.

We do not have a “limited constitutional monarchy” (that is what Liechtenstein has got – not us) – we have a non-existent monarchy.

There will only be resistance to the “advice” of ministers – if ministers go against “enlightened liberal opinion”.

Ministers rule – the monarch (as a person – rather than a reflector of enlightened liberal opinion) has no power.

One day, students of history will look back and ponder how we allowed the word “freedom” to become so malleable, rather than treating it with the respect it deserves as the important word in the English language.

In general, “Mass Man” (as identified by Oakeshott) is the target of writers appearing in the Guardian (NYT, BBC, and other high places). Some in that target may be evil, but most banal, who find it more “comfortable” to avoid or evade the responsibilities & risks of making choices (the essence of freedom and truly individual life).

An interesting trend may be beginning in those kinds of publications, with the aspect that more and more of what appears avoids and evades as well. It has begun by implied denials that “choice” is involved (determinism, sort of).

We may ultimately get back to “Pamphleteering” (such as Blogs) even in print.

This attempt at control of the media is not an act of strength, but of weakness and fear.

The collectivist model, which has ruled the academic theories and political ideologies of the last century and more, is deteriorating rapidly, as the lesser collectives of the welfare-state variation follow the path toward bankruptcy already blazed by the Marxist totalitarians.

The desperate fear of these weasels is that their Ponzi schemes will be exposed and documented before they can get control of further power and resources by claiming that their benevolent programs need just a bit more expansion and funding to be successful.

We can observe this bizarre spectacle in full flower right now as regards the already collapsing attempt to take over the medical economy here in the US, and the English case is just a little further down the road.

Coercive systems always appear to be strong and formidable, because they are dangerous with the apparatus of the state’s coercive power behind them, but, in fact, they are fragile and brittle, unable to adapt or evolve, and fearful of the most basic ideas or moral principles that are in opposition to the mythical world they have created.

The only people who need to censor are those who are afraid the answer the questions their ideas and actions generate. It is fear, not strength, that motivates these proposed measures.

I think this might be one of those rare occasions where the Queen is well within her rights to refuse to sign this thing and argue that traditional constitutional conventions are being circumvented in ways that are dangerous, and have been done so in conditions of secrecy.

Of course, a republican twat like Ed Milliband would use such a thing to bash the monarchy, but the monarchy is relatively popular in the UK at the moment, and if the Queen wants to create more of a legacy than being just a wise woman who looked graceful on TV, this would be a good move.

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